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... province , comprehending rather more than three score years , had been the seat of the Lord Proprietary's govern- ment . This little city had grown up in hard - favored times , which had their due effect in leaving upon it the visible ...
... province , comprehending rather more than three score years , had been the seat of the Lord Proprietary's govern- ment . This little city had grown up in hard - favored times , which had their due effect in leaving upon it the visible ...
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... province , yet rears its shattered and topless trunk , and daily distils upon the sacred relics at its foot , the dews of heaven , an august and brave old mourner to the departed companions of its prime . There is yet another memorial ...
... province , yet rears its shattered and topless trunk , and daily distils upon the sacred relics at its foot , the dews of heaven , an august and brave old mourner to the departed companions of its prime . There is yet another memorial ...
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... province , in humble and unostentatious guise , occupied , with its appurtenances , a few acres in the centre of the plain , a short distance from that confine of the city which lay nearest to St. Inigoe's ; and in the opposite quarter ...
... province , in humble and unostentatious guise , occupied , with its appurtenances , a few acres in the centre of the plain , a short distance from that confine of the city which lay nearest to St. Inigoe's ; and in the opposite quarter ...
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... province , comprehending Calvert , St. Mary's and Charles , as well as the counties on the opposite shore of the Chesapeake , might be said , at this date , to be in a condi- tion of secure and prosperous habitation . The great ocean ...
... province , comprehending Calvert , St. Mary's and Charles , as well as the counties on the opposite shore of the Chesapeake , might be said , at this date , to be in a condi- tion of secure and prosperous habitation . The great ocean ...
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... provincial banner bearing the cross of England , and holding the relation of a feather to the squat bonnet which the outline of the work might suggest to one curious to trace resemblances . The province , it may be surmised , was ...
... provincial banner bearing the cross of England , and holding the relation of a feather to the squat bonnet which the outline of the work might suggest to one curious to trace resemblances . The province , it may be surmised , was ...
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Albert Verheyden Alice amongst Anthony Warden Arnold beach Black House Blanche Warden boat brigantine brought brow Captain Dauntrees Chiseldine cloak Collector Colonel Talbot companions comrades Coode council creek Cripple Crow and Archer dame dance devil Dickon Doctor door ejaculated Escalfador exclaimed Father Pierre favor Fendall friends Garret Weasel gave give hand hath head heard heart honor horse hour Iago Inigoe's Isle of Kent Jerome's John Coode la Grange Lady Maria laugh leave light look Lord Baltimore Lordship maiden Mary's Mary's river Master Albert Master Cocklescraft Master Rob Master Verheyden merry Mistress Blanche never night Olive Branch Pamesack party port priest Proprietary province publican quarrel replied river Rose Croft scarce Secretary seen shore skipper speak spirit stood sword Talbot tell thee thou thought to-night tone turn voice Warrington whilst whispered wife Willy worshipful yawl
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Page 7 - Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall; And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land.
Page 321 - Tobacco's a Musician, And in a pipe delighteth ; It descends in a close, Through the organs of the nose, With a relish that inviteth.
Page 122 - Going to the Wars TELL me not, Sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True; a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such, As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 230 - A Ranger, lady, winds his horn, And 'tis at peep of light; His blast is heard at merry morn, And mine at dead of night.
Page 70 - She wore a frock of frolic green, Might well become a maiden queen, Which seemly was to see: A hood to that so neat and fine In colour like the columbine, Ywrought full featously.
Page 63 - An old song, made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate...
Page 327 - Much victuals serves for gluttony, to fatten men like swine, ' But he's a frugal man indeed that with a leaf can dine, ' And needs no napkins for his hands his finger's ends to wipe, ' But keeps his kitchen in a box, and roast meat in a pipe.
Page 63 - She cast her weeds away, And to the palmy shore she hied, All in her best array. In sea-green silk so neatly clad, She there impatient stood ; The crew with wonder saw the lad Repel the foaming flood.
Page 14 - Furthermore, Kennedy described the roof as having been "capped by a wooden balustraded parapet, terminating, at each extremity, in a scroll like the head of a violin, and, in the middle, sustaining an entablature that rose to a summit on which was mounted a weathercock.
Page 361 - She turned her right and round about, And she swore by the moon ; I would not be your love, says she, For all the gold in Rome.